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Proof: Data shows rental tenants have hit breaking point

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T21:42:53Z","headline":"Data shows rental tenants have hit breaking point","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcau","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-08/tenants-hit-breaking-point-record-rent-costs-according-to-domain/107238110","v":1}

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d70f72c073e864bc4eebdf9c4e4891ca0ecb86073a70588ceeafea537805123c

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970397, mined 2026-10-07 22:09 UTC.

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-d70f72c073e8.json prints d70f72c073e864bc4eebdf9c4e4891ca0ecb86073a70588ceeafea537805123c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-d70f72c073e8.json and headline-d70f72c073e8.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-d70f72c073e8.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
  3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 4 min after it was first seen.